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''[[Henrietta with Love]]'' is a one-woman play by [[Peter Voges]] (1937-2019)
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2015: Performed at the [[ArtsCape]] Arena in 2015, featuring [[Lee-Ann van Rooi]] as "Henrietta".
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2015: Performed at the [[ArtsCape]] Arena in 2015, featuring [[Lee-Ann van Rooi]] as "Henrietta", directed by [[Sandra Temmingh]].
  
 
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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6231928/
 
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''[[Cape Argus]]'', 12 August 2015.
  
 
[[Karen Kotze]]. 2016. "Life’s stories on stage", ''[[False Bay Echo]]''[https://www.falsebayecho.co.za/news/lifes-stories-on-stage-5221848]
 
[[Karen Kotze]]. 2016. "Life’s stories on stage", ''[[False Bay Echo]]''[https://www.falsebayecho.co.za/news/lifes-stories-on-stage-5221848]

Revision as of 11:12, 3 September 2020

Henrietta with Love is a one-woman play by Peter Voges (1937-2019).


The original text

Set in Alicedale in Athlone round about about 1946, it deals with the lives of a community – Alicedale in Athlone – when their shell-shocked men returned from the war in Europe and North Africa, having received no counselling.

Written for Lee-Ann van Rooi and performed as her first leading role, it opened at ArtsCape in 2015, and was nominated for a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in 2016.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2015: Performed at the ArtsCape Arena in 2015, featuring Lee-Ann van Rooi as "Henrietta", directed by Sandra Temmingh.

2016: Performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

Sources

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6231928/

Cape Argus, 12 August 2015.

Karen Kotze. 2016. "Life’s stories on stage", False Bay Echo[1]

Leletu Gxuluwe. 2016. "First-time playwright nominated for award", Cape Argus, 6 July 2016[2]

Athina May. 2018. "Rising playwright Peter Voges, started when he was 79-years-old", Cape Argus, 27 August 2018[3]

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